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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2015-03-22 20:18:59 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2015-03-22 20:18:59 (GMT) |
| commit | 94a64489568918ff51a80e748e78b9de836813ef (patch) | |
| tree | 267986d72f02dbff0064730ddf6933d60e9da13e /Lib/imaplib.py | |
| parent | 0a0d20edfb19934cd3929d6c115ba31c00744a24 (diff) | |
| parent | 936da2a796459fcb09a292d749971db8d9a7a0dd (diff) | |
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Merge: #23647: Increase imaplib's MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox sizes.
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diff --git a/Lib/imaplib.py b/Lib/imaplib.py index 49ee39d..a218ab0 100644 --- a/Lib/imaplib.py +++ b/Lib/imaplib.py @@ -45,11 +45,12 @@ AllowedVersions = ('IMAP4REV1', 'IMAP4') # Most recent first # Maximal line length when calling readline(). This is to prevent # reading arbitrary length lines. RFC 3501 and 2060 (IMAP 4rev1) -# don't specify a line length. RFC 2683 however suggests limiting client -# command lines to 1000 octets and server command lines to 8000 octets. -# We have selected 10000 for some extra margin and since that is supposedly -# also what UW and Panda IMAP does. -_MAXLINE = 10000 +# don't specify a line length. RFC 2683 suggests limiting client +# command lines to 1000 octets and that servers should be prepared +# to accept command lines up to 8000 octets, so we used to use 10K here. +# In the modern world (eg: gmail) the response to, for example, a +# search command can be quite large, so we now use 1M. +_MAXLINE = 1000000 # Commands |